Observations on the long take: Interview with 3AM

I was recently interviewed by Maxi Kim of 3AM Magazine and we talked in depth about my forthcoming book Damnation, as well as my love of Béla Tarr, the sentences of László Krasznahorkai, and the long takes of Tarkovsky.

An excerpt:

I felt like I was in a confessional booth, actually giving confession when I was watching Béla Tarr’s films; I’ve never given confession before, but that’s how I imagine it’d feel like – the simultaneous intimacy with distancing and guilt, and all of these emotions all at once. Though Tarr isn’t “religious” in the same sense, the distant and vague ghost of religion is almost more powerful for me than the overbearing presence of it.

Read the full interview here.